OK, got the stickers on, combination of Sky Decals "Bf 109 in Italian Service" and decals from the kit.  They all went down beautifully.  The wing Balkankreuz will be over-sprayed with dark olive green and the Italian insignia will be applied.

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aka Mike, The Mikester My Website

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. -Woody Allen

Moving right along...

The tail wheel was smooth hunk of plastic where the protective leather boot should be, lead foil to the rescue.  Wadded it up into a ball to give it some contours and then glued it to the tail wheel:

And then finished product, much better!:

Exhaust stacks were drilled out, would have like to have gone thinner but was afraid of going through the side wall:

Wash and flat coat applied, some of the other major components installed, starting to look like a 109!

I have some silvering on the wing insignia, can't seem to get rid of it which is real frustrating.

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aka Mike, The Mikester My Website

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. -Woody Allen

Frank -- I'm with the others on this, anything you line up will be met with glee! I have three Tamiya 262s on the shelf, I've put some extra 109s and 190s in the stash, though late model 190s have been a bit of a pain to get hold of. I'm sure i can come up with a suitable subject for any Reich Defender II you'd like to field!

I got the soft-masks onto the fuselage of my K-4 and have a photo, and I'm hoping to lay the 75 onto the fuselage today. You never know, if I get the bit in my teeth I might try to press on and do the green as well, then I'd be looking at touch-ups as needed and into the final stretch.

Mike

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Frank,

Here's a couple of ideas I've had floating through my head:

1.  "Bf 109, The Early Years", this would cover everything we didn't in this one; the A up to the G-4.

2.  "Luftflotte Ost", this would cover the Luftwaffe and perhaps the other co-belligerents on the Eastern Front (Hungary, Finland, Romania, etc.)

Anyway, if it's Luftwaffe I'm in!

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aka Mike, The Mikester My Website

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. -Woody Allen

Well I have lots of 109's Early and late. And lots of other Freakish things Like the BV 189A and B.

The BV Whats that odd warped looking thing Frank? And then a 262 a couple 1/48 FW-190's not Tamiya ones and Even some of the He 112 and The Sea version of the 109. Then you have the Do 335 versions and Don't get me started on the bombers! Even a couple of the 1946 stuff. Oh the Humanity!

 Why don't we all just build a Battleship?

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CPT Aaron McNeal

Those are all great ideas. I have a ton of early 109's also. I also have a 1/48 Dragon Fw 190 A-8 in Prillers markings of the 190 he flew over the beaches on D-Day. I also have an old Airfix BV 141 if you want to build the oddball planes. I thiink we might have to take a vote. To many good ideas not enough time to do them all.

                                                                                   Soulcrusher

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Hmmm... and Ace's build, I like it!  Keep those ideas flowing in, I'm loving it!

Glad to see all of the usual suspects are still here, and some very talented new faces as well!  Does the November 1st start date sound good to people?  That way, we've got some time to finish up other builds and get ready for part deux.

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Frank